The Union, Ohio, of the 1950s and ´60s in this piercing novel is a place of suburban comfort and racial bigotry. There, Loretta Dardio, a young girl growing from curiosity into adolescent defiance, risks ostracism and heartbreak as she pursues a romance on the other side of the color line. "Takes us clearly into the heart of rambunctious sexuality [in a] standard American small town. Across its corners creep the influential shadows of that classic Ohio village, Sherwood Anderson´s Winesburg." New York Times Book Review "A fine collection. moving and impossible to regret.". The New Yorker " A winner courageous and absolutely right artistically.

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